End Of OpenBSD 3.0-STABLE Branch - Upgrade To 3.2

jukal writes "From here: "Hello folks, Due to the upcoming release of OpenBSD 3.2, the 3.0-STABLE branch will be out of regular maintainance starting december 1st. There will be NO MORE fixes commited to this branch after this day. People relying on 3.0-STABLE (or older releases even) are strongly advised to upgrade to a more recent release (preferrably 3.2 as it becomes available) as soon as possible. Thanks for reading, Miod" Download from your preferred FTP mirror."

do what i do: make your own release

[honold]

man release to get started

i have a single master system that builds a release distribution and publishes it to a private site. i run the following script to do an in-place binary upgrade of all my systems:

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf /usr/upgradetmp
mkdir -p /usr/upgradetmp
cd /usr/upgradetmp
ftp http://WEBSITE/3.1/i386/bsd
ftp http://WEBSITE/3.1/i386/base31.tgz
ftp http://WEBSITE/3.1/i386/comp31.tgz
ftp http://WEBSITE/3.1/i386/game31.tgz
ftp http://WEBSITE/3.1/i386/man31.tgz
ftp http://WEBSITE/3.1/i386/misc31.tgz
cp /bsd /bsd.old
cp bsd /bsd
tar xzvpf base31.tgz -C /
tar xzvpf comp31.tgz -C /
tar xzvpf game31.tgz -C /
tar xzvpf man31.tgz -C /
tar xzvpf misc31.tgz -C /
cd ..
rm -rf upgradetmp
reboot /etc changes have to be merged manually but i keep my global configs in private cvs. bsd tar unlinks everything before overwriting, so doing it multi-user isn't a problem.

this makes managing 10+ openbsd servers a breeze.

almost forgot

[honold]

i do 'lynx -dump http://WEBSITE/upgrade.sh|sh' to upgrade so i don't have to keep local copies of the script incase it changes

Re:Release Cycles are Open Source's major flaw

[nutznboltz]

Look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING [freebsd.org]

RELENG_4_3 was last patched Thu May 2 20:37:12 2002

RELENG_4_4 was last patched Fri Sep 13 15:09:04 2002

RELENG_4_5 was last patched Fri Sep 13 15:07:23 2002

RELENG_4_6 was last patched Fri Sep 13 15:04:16 2002

RELENG_4_7 has not been released.

Seems to me that's at least three supported versions.

FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE was done April 21, 2001. Last patch was done 13 months after that. You could still use it if you used OpenSSL, OpenSSH, BIND, etc. from the ports tree.